Wise up, humanity!

 

There’s something profoundly disheartening about the politics of our countries right now. The deep madness, I’m afraid, is British imperial thinking that has been taken over by the United States. My country, the United States, is unrecognisable now compared to even 20 or 30 years ago. I’m not sure – to tell you the truth – who runs the country; I do not believe it is the President of the United States right now. We are run by generals, by our security establishment. The public is privy to nothing. The lies that are told about foreign policy are daily and pervasive by a mainstream media that I can barely listen to or read any more. The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the main television outlets are 100% repeating government propaganda by the day, and it’s almost impossible to break through.

What is this about? Well, as you’ve heard, it’s about a madness of the United States to keep US hegemony, a militarised foreign policy dominated by the thinking of generals who are mediocre intellects, personally greedy, and without any sense, because their modus operandi is to make war. And they are cheerled by Britain, which is unfortunately, in my adult life, increasingly pathetic in being a cheerleader for the United States, for US hegemony, and for war. Whatever the United States says, Britain will say it 10 times more enthusiastically. The UK leadership could not love the war in Ukraine more. It’s the Great Second Crimean War for the British media and for the British political leadership.
– Professor Jeffrey Sachs in a 5 July 2023 speech to SHAPE (Saving Humanity and Planet Earth). Hat tip to Alexander Mercouris

Introduction

I watch on in growing hope as establishment figures from the highest levels of society slowly morph into “conspiracy theorists”. Of course they would not call themselves that, but those invested in and thus loyal to establishment (aka ‘mainstream’) narratives would not hesitate to label them so. RFK Jr., US presidential hopeful, currently doing surprisingly well in the polls, strikes me as an honourable man on a journey quite similar to the one Professor Sachs is walking. Both are men with open minds, a clear positive that, nowadays, will quickly get you labelled “conspiracy theorist”. And that the knives are now clearly out for Biden tells us The West knows Biden cannot win. With no one viable to replace Biden, and with RFK Jr. playing the independent-media circuit with aplomb, Kennedy may well be the next President of the United States.

In times of historical decadence, it seems, dark ambitions kept hidden – because not quite ready for prime time, because still held somewhat in check by institutions established to that end – are suddenly forced into the open by a combination of hubris, ignorance, and event-driven desperation. Conspiring is but one facet of this revelatory process, incompetence another. How to precisely weigh the relative importance of each – and other factors – is beyond my pay grade, though I do hope to appeal to your hearts by drawing attention to interconnections between the bleeding obvious but wilfully ignored, the not-so obvious, and the mysterious.

In that vein, this article is a counterbalance to my previous musing.

A blitzkrieg recap of recent times

The seven most amazing events of my life: 

1. Because of a virus, the constitution is suspended and an emergency regime of curfews and general psychological terror is established.

2. Anyone who questions this state of affairs is no longer a citizen, but a “Schwurbler” [transl. someone who talks rubbish, used synonymously with “conspiracy theorist”], or even a Nazi.

3. The suddenly omnipresent slogan "New Normal" is accepted uncritically, almost fervently. A return to the Old Normal – one hears and reads everywhere – will never happen. (How do they all know this with such certainty?)

4. A leaden silence settles over the country. Those who think the new situation is wrong better keep their mouths shut, otherwise their social status will immediately drop to that of doggie doo-doo. People talk behind closed doors and meet conspiratorially.

5. When a vaccine is rolled out, there is no general sigh of relief; instead we get the next mass hysteria. Those who, upon sober reflection, decide not to take the jab are mobbed in public, have to fear for their jobs and become social lepers.

6. And then, just like that, the whole thing is over. Compulsory masking, compulsory vaccination, compulsory testing are but a distant memory, a disturbing dream receding into the shadows.

7. Did anything even happen? Was there something? Everyone is acting as if nothing happened. Now there’s a war, and in the media disaster always travels alone. As if triggered by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, suddenly there is no more reporting of infection rates in the newspapers, and no one wants to be reminded of Corona.

The Old Normal indeed returned. 

’Twas a mere trifle of billions of euros spent? Sure looks like it. 

But you can't just pull off a stunt like that and pretend everything is normal again. History judges mercilessly. Slowly, but mercilessly.

I, for one, will never forget what happened and what an extremely ugly side society put on display. And I will share what I know. In books and films and wherever I can. My bet: this affair will be dealt with.

Maybe not for decades.

But it will happen. 

Because the critical mass of those who had to watch on aghast as the world around them went mad is large enough. I notice it every day and everywhere I go.
– German text shared anonymously on Telegram

The WEF / WHO / Davos Crowd bet the farm on their desired utopian/dystopian vector set in motion with covid lockdowns. Part of that was of course continuation of preceding shenanigans, doings that include sufficient control of midwit ‘leaders’ – the Build Back Better Brigade – placed in positions of ‘authority’ across the Western world by this malicious grouping of deranged, wannabe Global Rulers. 

Despite their best efforts, their plans fray and unravel all around us.

About a year and a half ago, The West’s specially selected ‘leaders’ (narcissistic, ambitious, controllable, not very bright) have managerially, obediently doubled down on that bet, this time giddy with the belief that Russia is weak, corrupt, a paper tiger, a gas station masquerading as a country. This particular exciting venture is the neocons’ Grand Obsession, or more accurately that especially visceral gaggle of ideologues among them who Hate Russia! so blindly, they seem ready to destroy humanity in pursuit of their grubby Eurasian dreams. 

Despite their best efforts, their plans fray and unravel all around us. 

Their panic is now plain to see if you but look.

What now characterises The West as a result of all this is the ideologically fanatical leading the vain, ambitious and shallow on ugly missions of destruction, with the bought-and-paid-for Western media acting as stenographers amplifying the ever deepening madness that has the West in its grip. Currently, most of the West’s peoples are some combination of too busy, too tired, too cynical or too paralysed by their angsty Stockholm Syndromes to respond with robust, meaningful protest. And of course there’s the vast institutional inertia grinding on and on and on.

And yet the fact that Professor Sachs, among several others, has noticed and is speaking out, and also that there are multiple grassroots and professional fightbacks underway in the UK and US, as indeed across the world, is part of the evidence I draw on when arguing that the cultural soils beneath the now-panicked clown show propagated so garishly by Western media outlets are – though still mostly out of sight – now richly fertile, ready to birth new forms of governance in the West.

Meanwhile, we find ourselves confronted with a tragic mess of epochal proportions, utterly devoid of charm, grace or glory. I will never be able to convey how disgusted I am by what I am witnessing. After earnest and repeated promises to do “whatever it takes”, The West slammed NATO’s doors in Ukraine’s face at the recent Vilnius summit. They may enter those hallowed halls after they beat Russia. But if they can beat Russia, why would they so desperately want NATO membership? 

The West ‘wants’ (needs) a way out, but the only way out appears to be the blunt correction of abject defeat. It will try to stealthily shift the narrative away from Ukraine to The Next Scary Monster, or it will escalate yet again; perhaps today’s the attack on the Kerch bridge was that escalation. My gut and intuition tell me, however, that if they do indeed risk escalation, they will be thwarted by an adult response from Russia/China that stop events boiling over into WWIII.

Ultimately though, the quality of The West’s madness is so tawdry, so malign, so devoid of decency and compassion, it is simply beyond comprehension. The non-Western world watches on, incredulous, trying to keep as far from our crazed insanity as it can, and assiduously gets on with the business of setting up alternative international systems in which one day – I hope – a healed West will participate.

The evil that men do

What The West has primarily squandered is its authority. Grown spiritually bankrupt, materialistic, pompous and narcissistic, The West has come to confuse raw power for authority. Blinded by its hubristic error, it has seduced itself into catastrophic overreach and destroyed yet another nation. It is also destroying itself. Its power, no longer rooted in true authority, is simply the repeated application of brute force, which is now visibly waning brute force.

It is authority alone which is the true and unique power of law. Compulsion is only an expedient to which one takes recourse in order to remedy a lack of authority. Where there is authority […], there compulsion is superfluous.
– Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot, 1972 (2019), pp77-79.

Where there is authority, there compulsion is superfluous. 

And yet perhaps The West’s malfunction is not evil, perhaps it is something duller, less romantic than that. It is a very human madness of vain pride whose roots clutch deep into decades, centuries of entitlement and privilege, drawing on dynastic belief systems spawned in the slow heat of too much power, too little corrective feedback, too little wisdom.

The “evil spirits” which deprive man of his freedom are not at all beings of the so-called “hierarchies of evil” or “fallen hierarchies”. Neither Satan, nor Belial, nor Lucifer, nor Mephistopheles has ever deprived anyone of his freedom. Temptation is their only weapon and this presupposes the freedom of he who is tempted. […]

[P]erverse human tendencies can deprive us of our freedom and enslave us. Worse still, they can avail themselves of our imagination and inventive faculties and lead us to creations which can become the scourge of mankind. […]

Resist the devil, and the devil will be your friend. A devil is not an atheist; he does not doubt God. The faith which he lacks is faith in man.
– Ibid, pp61-63.

Resist The West, and it will crush you without mercy. Its vanity demands total obedience, the total subjugation of your free will to its demands.

This is the pivotal question: What, in all this noise, has become of our faith in ourselves? How persuaded are we by the unceasing waves of dogwhistle messaging informing us we suck; we are vermin; useless eaters; greedy, porn-addicted breeders procreating too much, but producing nothing of value? How deeply have we internalised this cruel siren song? 

Should we go under? Should we allow ourselves to be culled like Marvel’s Thanos wanted? What are your thoughts on this oddly titillating moral conundrum?

In my previous post, I presented that part of me that forever vacillates, forever ‘progresses’ from one seemingly solid analysis to another. Like all such traits, such vacillation is boon and bane. 

We need faith and skepticism both. The former without the latter leads to fanaticism and machine-like obedience. The latter without the former leads to Hamlet-like inaction and erodes our courage.

My own faith, my knowing, is that humanity is here for a reason, and is on the cusp of rediscovering this truth. We are not pointless. But because free will is sacred and we are trusted with it, we are free to go wildly astray. Astray, our adventures teach us much – though very slowly at the collective level –, and one means of their teaching is great suffering. Sadly – cries the ego – it is a rinse-and-repeat process.

Note, however, that it is “great suffering”, not “great pleasure”! Something in us yearns for nobler lives, something more fitting to our destiny. As the saying goes, “Respect existence or expect resistance!” We resist because something noble in us must resist. We resist because we perceive something profoundly dysfunctional in tyranny. Of course it is never all of humanity resisting as one, but enough of us do resist, and ever more fiercely as times grow ever darker. Human nobility is a flame that can never be fully extinguished. We will always find a way to fight back.

What we need to understand, is what we are fighting for.

The dilemma of dilemmas

Apparently, it costs $20 to $30 to recycle one solar panel, but $1 to $2 to leave it in a landfill to rot. This factoid is a numerical reflection of the image that heads this article. The reason we ‘value’ the latter over the former method for dealing with old solar panels is because we measure value with numbers. In other words, we appreciate value in too coarse, too cumbersome a way at the cultural level. 

A science rooted solely in intelligence seems to tend to destructive technologies. Rooted also in wisdom, it would tend to the constructive. Consequently, one could argue (as I do) that some kind of return to God, to the primacy of consciousness, to the ineffable, is required to afford a shift of emphasis, a shift in the cultural value systems that direct our science, economics and politics. In my analysis, in my intuition, it is precisely this quality of shift that characterises the evolution underway in the cultural soils just beneath our collective perception.

My argument is that this is but one manifestation of that old dilemma, quantity versus quality. It is a very specific dilemma that is not easy to resolve. Or, better perhaps, is a dilemma we should not try to resolve. Part of the Western way seems to me to be a dialectical need to tease out dilemmas in order to choose one side at the expense of the other, as if compelled by an unseen urge to put one half of reality to shame while idolising the other.

Etymologically, a dilemma is a choice between two accepted assumptions or propositions. Positing such between “quality” and “quantity” is usefully illustrative, precisely because one should not want to shame the one and idolise the other. But isn’t this precisely what the West has done these last few centuries? 

Quality is ineffable, unmeasurable. Quantity is its ‘opposite’; we love to grade everything, set endless milestones and benchmarks, we worship precision, admire suspension bridges and internal combustion engines, respect the hard fact of money in the bank and solid trade surpluses, etc. But feelings about these things? Subjective impressions about what it all might mean? 

“Commit it then to the flames”! 

If a thing cannot be measured, if it contains “nothing but sophistry and illusion”, it is a thing to be banished from our attention. This 18th century call to action from David Hume is surely emblematic of how the West has treated reality for about three centuries. This approach has produced engineering marvels and astonishing increases in material wealth, but also much to lament. There is plainly more to reality than that which can be precisely measured. Dignity springs to mind, as do love, honour, friendship, trust, wisdom, to name but a few. None of these could be thought of as unimportant. None can be measured.

We are therefore faced with what I’m provocatively calling the dilemma of dilemmas, by which I mean a cultural inflection point in which the consequences of having idolised quantity for too long, and of having no cultural means, or wisdom, for taking quality effectively into account, are coming home to roost. We have paired reality into a bewitching array of dilemmas, a process whose advantages – precision, clarity, predictability, certainty – have somehow  morphed into a soul-smothering quagmire whose ugliest poster child is Ukraine, closely followed by the bureaucratic nannying and paranoid fear mongering of lockdowns, compulsory vaccination and medical tyranny. 

Our digital future of 0s and 1s is upon us!

Back to faith, back to reality

How backward and inappropriate this concluding subheading must seem to most. What sort of charlatan, what manner of snake-oil salesman would dare headline a phrase that equates faith with reality!? But I go further still. I dare to advocate a re-embracing of superstition. There be gold in them thar hills, the gold of encoded wisdom.

Wisdom cannot be purchased or stolen. You earn the Holy Grail; you cannot win it by chance. Nor can you, by logical extension, earn it and then gift it to others unearned. Accepting this is so, accepting further that wisdom resists measurement and definition, if we do want to make our culture alert to the value of earning and appreciating wisdom, if we do want to draw attention to wisdom as a most noble quality, generally and across time, we are consequently tasked with encoding the many pathways to wisdom in our initiatory and preparatory customs, habits, rituals and, yes, even superstitions. I suspect this set of solutions to the problem of preserving wisdom across time is broadly familiar to all cultures.

This is not to say superstition and its friends should usurp rationality or the scientific method, rather that it be newly understood, welcomed even, as a valued partner in establishing the many interweaving processes of social governance. 

But our centuries-long focus on quantity has sped us up into a white-noise frenzy of perpetual economic growth, 24/7 entertainment and narcissistic abandon. We are cynical, exhausted, emptied. Slowing down to taste the gentle pleasures of mindfulness, the calm solidity of patience, and more importantly to enjoy them, will be challenging, to say the least. I note, however, that Robert Kennedy’s campaign has wisdom and love as foundational elements. I note too that Charles Eisenstein is one of Kennedy’s campaign advisors. All that I write here is thus finding its way into the mainstream via powerful channels. Seeing as the meat and potatoes of this article are more than a little Eisensteinian, and seeing too that this perspective is, one way or the other, as old as time, I hope you can begin to feel the inevitability of wisdom’s return. 

Unbalance wants to correct, disease to ease. Mysteriously, reality always finds the right vehicles for effecting needed correction. I believe Robert Kennedy is one of the more prominent, though there are tens of thousands of less known advocates of what needs to be done. It is my firm conviction that we cannot be stopped.

Taking stock: How wrong am I?

A grasp of geopolitical realities is also essential. The US remains by some distance the world’s dominant power. Its naval power guarantees open waters for international trade, world credit markets depend on dollars. But, Washington does not have the power to direct China’s and India’s energy relations with Russia.

The coming midwinter will bring a reckoning. Western governments must either invite economic misery on a scale that would test the fabric of democratic politics in any country, or face the fact that energy supply constrains the means by which Ukraine can be defended. – Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University in the Financial Times, 19 August 2022 (A Winter Energy Reckoning Looms For The West). [My emphases]

Introduction

For the last few weeks, I’ve returned to the World Out There in earnest, having completed a mammoth software project that absorbed almost all of my time and attention for about two years. Specifically, I’ve been devouring material put out by Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou (The Duran), Tom Luongo (Gold, Goats ’n Guns), and Brian Berletic (The New Atlas). They have dedicated their time and intelligence to analysing in considerable detail what is currently underway across the geopolitical landscape. They present a sobering picture. I won’t set out their individual positions in any detail, but do heartily recommend their commentary to anyone interested in making sense of this breathtaking historical moment.

As a very crude paraphrase, their analyses, taken together, present the following picture: Decadence seems to have fully rotted The West. Visceral Russophobia appears to have addled the minds of The West’s ruling classes, who have taken leave of their senses to pursue strategies that can only drive them over the cliff. (If The West’s behaviour is ‘all part of the plan’, it is a deranged plan that will rob them of everything but ‘control’ of an economic backwater – The New Europe –, at best.)

Russia has declared its full opposition to what Putin calls “Western globalist elites”, who are hell bent on installing “neoliberal totalitarianism” by means of chaos and crises. This openly pits Russia against the WEF and the WHO, i.e. the main instruments of what Luongo terms “the Davos crowd”, and those elements of the US that support the Davos agenda of “neoliberal totalitarianism”. China, increasingly suspicious of The West – especially after Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan – is making clearer and clearer statements of support for Russia. Xi is set to visit Saudi Arabia to perhaps begin negotiations for Saudi Arabia to join the BRICS bloc – demise of the petrodollar ahead? OPEC has been rebuffing US demands for more oil. Africa showed Blinken the cold shoulder after welcoming Russia’s Lavrov with open arms.

Meanwhile, the Fed is raising rates aggressively into a recession and looks set to continue to do so, having shielded its banking system somewhat from Europe’s via SOFR, an interbank lending system that will make LIBOR redundant. Is the Fed’s calculation that the US is thus better protected than Europe and the UK from the harsh impact rate hikes will effect? Jerome Powell, likely backed by several US commercial-banking interests, seems to believe the US can weather the storm he has set in motion, a storm that will shake all but the strongest fruit from the tree. 

And there is much else besides – India, Turkey, Syria … – each event as mightily significant in geopolitical impact as the other. Events are unfolding at breakneck speed. History is currently more sky-devouring firework display than cautious tortoise race. It is all we can do to keep up, and no matter how much we read and listen to, we can only ever be aware of a tiny fraction of what’s actually taking place.

I never believed there was but one hegemonic bloc of ‘elites’, one seamless hive mind, seeking evil control of reality. It has always been clear to me since studying state formation and money in depth, that multiple upper-echelon groups vie for control. But, having grown jaded about fine-grained analysis of what, precisely, is going on Out There, having experienced my own failure to communicate effectively my ideas about the stage of history in which humanity is mired, I changed tack and attended to family matters and my own spiritual development, leaving the world to do whatever it was going to do.

Then, when the lockdowns were rolled out, my intuition screamed out at me that this event was epoch shattering. It hit me like a tsunami of icy water. My articles since June 2020 have charted the thoughts and feelings that welled up from that incredible intuitive download in late March 2020. My sense now, after the last few weeks drinking in the material so crudely paraphrased above, is that I have been too hopeful about humanity’s ability to respond in a positive and open way to what is happening, and thus tone deaf to the actual nuance of its global ramifications. This article takes stock of my recent performance.

Briefly critiquing the bases of my analysis

1. Technological unemployment

Not particularly relevant if nations deindustrialise. Germany’s and the rest of Europe’s industrial base is being dismantled as a consequence of their refusal to fight off the Davos yoke, and by their ordinary citizen’s inability and/or reluctance to see this dismantling is well underway (see point 5). One gets the sense of collective fiddling while Rome burns, of oddly muffled hysterical delirium as the ground opens beneath us.

The love and courage needed to mitigate this debacle is not there, it seems, in sufficient supply. Love is doubtless the healthiest vector, but you have to earn it, walk the walk, pay your dues, answer the call, etc. Consequently, the opportunity to earn it is disappearing – if by “opportunity” we mean the next few months – if we are to have enough time to stop “neoliberal totalitarianism”. (That said, it always seems as if we have but a few short months, and yet things never quite become what one might have anticipated.)

One way or the other, then, technological unemployment cannot supply the shock for a radical historical leap in how humans build and run economies and societies when there is no capacity to build the factories, robotics and logistics systems this would require. It might not be the fallacious “lump of labour fallacy” that defangs this systemic drag on perpetual growth, but rather a generalised failure of courage and imagination, nourished and nurtured by political and professional-media classes reflexively unwilling to release their hold on power.

2. (State + market = symbiont) + (money = exquisite tool of control)

I’m still confident this ‘equation’ holds, but it doesn’t really matter right now. Affluence is being sacrificed at the altar of political control. The management classes employed to implement ruling-class diktat are strongly incentivised to maintain the status quo. For example, the political class is sufficiently allied with other professional classes, in particular mass-media professionals, to see selling out the poor (middle classes and below) as their best chance of survival. And it will remain in their interest while that mass fails to agitate effectively for change. Instead, the overwhelming majority continues to believe what the media tells them as consecutive crises spring fully formed from nowhere to dominate the headlines, shoving prior crises into the bottomless memory hole.

(And where is the New System the downtrodden might set up to replace the old? Not only is there nothing coherent out there to implement, there is no agreement whatsoever on the set of half-baked ideas available for discussion. As I am at pains to point out here, we are profoundly divided and conquered. The sort of new thinking we need to coalesce around will, in my view, only start to take shape after we have properly confronted the problem of dualism. We appear to be a very long way from wanting to grasp that nettle.)

3. Money does not really measure and store value

Not very relevant (yet). The reasoning on this point is as that of the above two points.

4. Love is healthier than fear and fear’s downstream emotions

True, but history has plenty more in store for us yet as we pay our collective dues.

5. Dysfunction cannot be sustained

This is true, but as I have often argued, it could take a long time before catastrophic malfunction, perhaps three generations before European/Western totalitarianism falls to pieces (assuming it gets installed). But here, again, I’m not really sure; events are changing so fast. And the spiritual element is unreadable on this point, and could be very significant. That perhaps 70% fear independence of thought does not necessarily mean a galvanised 30% is utterly incapable of establishing a humane new system the 70% can be happy with (see below). This is a very difficult one to call. History says one thing, but past performance is not a watertight predictor of future performance, especially when one epoch crumbles into the next.

6. East and West are at sea in the same holed, dualism boat

True, but to a limited degree. East and West are on significantly different timescales and vectors, particularly where economic affluence is concerned. As the West suffers severe demotion and loses mightily in significance, so the East could be freed to return to its more wholistic roots, which might include the sorts of trade relations suggested by Charles Handy’s The Empty Raincoat, and as implied by the fact of the interest-free money creation favoured by Islam. Weighing in against that potential, however, The East will also face the intractable problems of technological unemployment and decay/decadence after cresting the steep hill of success and wondering what to do next. When you’re no longer the underdog, when the simple vision of raising your people up into modernity has been accomplished, you face a very different set of challenges, one The West has so far failed to master. Furthermore, The East will also face the challenges of peak oil and the social and spiritual fallout of using numbers, in the form of money and price, to measure value and thus guide people’s aspirations and expectations.

I’ve often heard it said that roughly 70% of us humans cannot meaningfully disagree with or criticise authority. It certainly looks that way most of the time. On the other hand, there is now visibly growing suspicion and reluctance to believe all that authority says re. covid, but is this healthy skepticism too little too late? 

Ukraine looks to have the vast majority of The West fooled. All NATO and Western powers have to do is prolong the war until economic collapse, or grinding slide, into Europe’s pending status as economic backwater. The endless war and attendant trumpeted ‘dangers’ from Russia-China will then provide the requisite backdrop for growing authoritarianism/austerity. The narrative for paving this path is already being floated: “We must all pay and suffer to defend Ukraine, no matter the cost! There is no alternative.” If this seems insane, that’s because it is (see point 5 above).

A fly in the ointment here, however, is Russia’s dominance in the Ukraine war. I know this is controversial, but cooler heads are unequivocal on this point. As Russia takes control of Ukraine and strangles The West’s ability to perpetuate anything except its own misery, until The West acquiesces to the multi-polar world the BRICS++ bloc plans to establish, it may well become incapable even of totalitarianism. Time will tell.

Crises, crises, crises…

Lockdowns look set to fall away and be replaced by other crises, except perhaps in Germany where the ‘ruling’ ‘government’ – Germany has become bafflingly idiotic – is making best efforts to sustain as many crises as it can. In China, it is apparently Xi’s obsession with “zero Covid” driving policy. Can Xi sustain this for much longer? 

China supports Russia on Ukraine. The war there is not an existential threat to China by any means, but China’s need to re-inflate its ailing economy and navigate through its blossoming property crisis might well require Xi to gently drop his “zero Covid” fanaticism, especially as the rest of the world is no longer as impressed by China’s ‘success’ as it (allegedly) was in 2020. Not to mention increasing tensions between China and the US placing financial pressures on China being wholly incompatible with zealous lockdowns of large parts of its admittedly oceanic economy.

Bearing these sorts of complicating factors in mind, does the Davos crowd have the means to generate alternative, sufficiently different, sufficiently toothed crises, ad nauseam, in pursuit of their hegemonic ambitions? What Davos needs is a rolling tapestry of varying crises, behind which it can impose authoritarianism/totalitarianism on as much of the world as possible. But is this now only Europe, and perhaps not even the whole of The West? Will they lose the US, Australia and New Zealand?

Monkey pox cannot possibly justify lockdowns, and anyway lockdowns are quickly becoming a political turd no one want to touch; all-out unrest would be too risky in the midst of general economic collapse, especially with political winds turning against Davos generally. Pandemics and the medical tyranny they promise look far less effective than before. And as I write, the blame for the ‘vaccines’ – likely the worst medication in history – is being placed at Trump’s door, as if this bizarre move will somehow save those who so aggressively pushed them, with mandates and threats of all kinds, before and after their appearance.

The Ukraine crisis, obviously in the works since at least 2014 with billions poured into Ukraine to build its army and the state-of-the-art defence lines now being steadily ground down by the Russian allied armies, is a NATO/Davos affair that does not really trouble the rest of the world all that much. And it is backfiring catastrophically. Electricity prices per MWh have exploded to over €600 in many European nations, which is roughly 600% more than prices considered expensive in 2020 (anything above €100). Whom, exactly, are sanctions against Russia harming? Despite this asinine tactic, despite further billions being poured into Ukraine, despite perhaps decades of preparation, despite Hollywood stars gracing Zelensky’s presence – or being graced by it –, despite the finest public relations money can buy, despite the tightest-fitting green military t-shirts money can buy, NATO is losing the war. The West is concealing this most horrendous fact via its mass-media poodles and attack dogs, but nevertheless, NATO is losing this war. Russia is perhaps a few months away from dictating the terms of Ukraine’s future.

The loss of life on all sides is tragic and grotesque, but we normal folk are a mere irritant to those whom the gods first make mad. Should events in Ukraine proceed as they have done since March, what will Davos be able to build from the rubble of its credibility? What will Europe look like six months from now?

The people of Europe, deprived of reliable energy sources, having bankrupted themselves on lunatic, untested lockdown policies, having taken the worst medications ever produced as if their lives depended on it, faced with a political class as incompetent as it is corrupt and a media as obedient as it is shortsighted, will face a bitter choice between abject poverty, permanent Gulag, obedience, or effective resistance. “The people of Europe” of course includes the police and army, who will also face this choice.

In short, life for ordinary Westerners looks all set to be about blank survival, not the sort of ethical considerations I examine here at Econosophy. We are about to be locked down firmly to the base of Maslow’s pyramid. The East looks set to lift its people higher.

If the above is true, perhaps my most significant error is that this is not a truly global phenomenon in the sense of a simultaneous global awakening. It looks to be much more the fall of The West and the rise of The East (putting it crudely). If this is so, it nevertheless remains exceedingly difficult to be confident about how the various peoples of The West will respond: US, Spain, Hungary, Germany, UK … Obviously very differently from culture to culture, but how will this diversity effect proceedings? I simply do not know. 

Would such an outcome be a failure for Davos? They’ll own Europe to a degree, but so what? It was already theirs, but affluent, influential. How affluent will Europe be six months from now?

Would such an outcome mean that the US still has Europe in its grip? Or would a weakened Davos be at ‘war’ with a weakened US over Europe, as Tom Luongo and others theorise? 

Wouldn’t Europe be more liability than asset? And without the power afforded by ownership of the world’s reserve currency – assuming the BRICS++ successfully establish their preferred replacement – could the US afford to control Europe? 

I’m not at all sure how to answer these questions, but I'm persuaded they are at least valid.

The same goes for the UK, in spades. While we are an inventive bunch, we have been royally dumbed down for several decades, and there is much bad feeling out there, much brooding anger and hatred, to work through. There’s no real way of knowing how things will play out here, either.

Will Australia and New Zealand pivot eastwards? Scott Morrison has just been exposed as a rank crook of epic proportions, and I suspect elements in both these countries clearly see that The West is on a hiding to nothing. Perhaps they will indeed pivot east, though New Zealand would have to rid itself of Jacinda Ardern first.

So if Davos had its shiny metal heart set on the whole pie, but ends up instead with a very third-rate slither thereof called Europe, wouldn’t that be a miserable failure? One way or the other, this all looks like a standard civilisational collapse with former underdogs, Russia, China and their growing cohort, stepping up to assume pole position, to build a multipolar world (they allege). It all smacks of the delusional grandiosity and itchy-feet ambition, so expected of too-rich overlords, backfiring in the most ugly way, just as it always does.

Conclusion

I thought we humans might do much better this time around, but it looks like I was wrong about that, certainly in the timeframe I had romantically begun to hope for. I had always estimated 75-100 years (three generations) of significant change to establish something far more humane and beautiful than current governance systems, then saw the suddenness and enormity of the covid scam as a sufficiently sobering wake-up call to accelerate implementation of that needed change. But if 70% simply cannot function outside their comfort zone come what may, then that hoped for possibility can’t really happen. 

Furthermore, there’s really nowhere to go for the 30% (maximum!) of people who want to do things differently, to experiment meaningfully at large enough scale. There is no way we can learn and then demonstrate what’s possible; the opportunity just isn’t there. Blogs and books and documentaries are nowhere near enough. Without demonstrable results, we outsiders have next to nothing to offer. (And yes, I’m aware of The Greater Reset, Qortal, and many other endeavours. In my view, either the numbers are too small, the solutions don’t scale, or they are too rooted in the virtual world of computers, well meaning and noble as they all may be.)

I keep coming back to “failure of imagination”, a phrase David Graeber coined after the promise of the Occupy movement drifted away. The leap needed is so dizzying, the ravine we have to cross so wide, the drop into darkness so intimidating, we freeze. Stockholm Syndrome has us. We are too invested in how things are, too entangled with the powers that be. As is almost always the case, we will have to be shaken from our fear into desperate courage, perhaps even into abandon, by total breakdown. The looming threat of it alone seems not to be enough. Or perhaps the threat of it is so big it has to be ignored; our will to see it for what it is balks at its monstrous size. 

We will see how this plays out. I’m nothing if not an eternal optimist. And while I temper that with brutal realism, I then temper that realism with hopeful romanticism, around and around, back and forth. I’m also caught on the pendulum of loving humanity for what it is – even though this includes depravity and unbelievable horror –, and despairing at modernity’s unattractive tendency to shrink from the hard work needed to attain true maturity of spirit. 

Despite all that, and knowing full well that reality is far more than I can ever know, I do know that love, as health, as wisdom, is the vector that will stand the test of time.

Between now and then, it seems the time needed to learn the hard lesson that blind obedience and wisdom are mutually exclusive, far exceeds the time separating The West from its looming and bitter correction.

Dear GoFundMe, what did you just do to Canada?

[Edit 6 Feb 2022: The pressure on GoFundMe was immediate and intense. I read this last night on The Epoch Times:

The GoFundMe fundraising platform said Feb. 5 it will automatically refund donations made to a trucker convoy in Canada protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates after backlash.
GoFundMe said Friday it was preventing the funds from going to organizers of the Freedom Convoy and would instead send the money to “established charities verified by GoFundMe.”]

For that matter, what did you just do to humanity, GoFundMe? Whose interests do you serve? 

If people not affiliated with the Trucker Protest in Ottawa engaged in criminality in that city, and the police, under pressure from their employers, used that to tar the Trucker Protest with one brush, what right do you have to go along with that tarring? Is the police’s evidence sufficient justification for your decision? Do you honestly believe the Trucker Protest been secretly violent all along? On the basis of the police’s obviously tawdry evidence, you are effectively stealing money from innocent donors and choosing for them without their consent what to do with it. Not a good optic. You are essentially saying that power must be obeyed no matter what. Not a good optic. People with legitimate grievances, in this case a very large percentage of Canadians – and that percentage would be far higher if the Trucker Protest received fair media coverage on all channels, if, say, Trudeau were to debate that protest’s leaders live – have an inalienable right to protest, without permission. I note support for the truckers in Canada, in an atmosphere of grossly one-sided reporting, is higher than that for the governing liberal party Trudeau leads. I repeat, this move is not a good look for you.

Surely your brand is in part about people power. Your decision here defiles your brand. Imagine that the people of East Germany had asked permission to protest against the Berlin Wall. I can assure you their protests were illegal in the eyes of the East German government (or should that be “regime”?). The West still celebrates images of East Germans destroying the Wall with sledge hammers. The East German police would have informed GoFundMe about violent activity and destruction of government property. And, on the evidence of your recent decision, you would have taken them at their word.

Are you for tyrannical power, GFM? If you believe the Trucker Protest is in favour of brute force and tyrannical power, or that its members drove thousands of miles to Ottawa in their tens of thousands – risking their livelihoods in the process – to do mindless violence and, as Trudeau tweeted, “hurl abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless”, you must be as wildly off target in your critical thinking as Trudeau. The government narrative makes no sense whatsoever. Your alignment with it will, I suspect, backfire in ways that will snuff you out.

But perhaps there’s still hope for you. Perhaps the last two letters in “Fund” could be changed to a “c” and a “k”. Here, I’ll spell it out for you: GoFuckMe. That’s a far more appropriate optic.

The nature of the task

 We are humanity, a species divided by those who would subjugate us into atomised consumers hungry for whatever they are selling, atomise us into semi-living machine parts in their all-encompassing system, engineer us into 24/7 on-call guinea pigs for their endless experiments, into creatures free enough to obey their orders precisely. We are to become farm produce, fodder for our rulers’ revulsion and pleasure – as their momentary whims dictate.

That portion of humanity choosing love, truth and free will in defiance of their wannabe overlords are a loose group faced with the seemingly impossible task of becoming an army of love, truth and free will. They are separated from each other by any number of boundaries. They attempt the unprecedented, informed daily that they are domestic terrorists, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, selfish idiots, right-wing extremists.

That portion of humanity believing such information sees no value in what the army of love are selling. Those that army would liberate into the terrible beauty of their free will do not yearn for victory. Safety is their dream. Defiance is risky, selfish. The anti-socials should listen to the experts, think about other people, follow the science, trust what governments the world over are saying.

The defiant are thus pitched against the very people for whom they fight. Those for whom they fight reject what they are. And yet that army believes the compliant are deceived. But what right do they have to act on that belief? 

This is the nature of the task.

We, all of humanity, built history into today. Today is farce run riot. Today is Clown World, fear frenzy, righteous anger held at fever pitch by rulers hell bent on final dominion, hell bent on perfection, on faultless systems they expertly control. Soon, they sing, soon tragedy and suffering will be phenomena dimly understood from the pages of dull history books. Soon we will be happier than ever. Who can resist such an emancipating programme?

I understand this programme as a satanic process: the ego’s urgent ascent, a usurpation of God by Ego forever foretold by the way things are. It happens always in fitfully expanding spirals. Today it is happening globally, intensely, completely. 

Are we becoming one healthy diversity through this fiery crucible?

Yes, “army” is the wrong word. So are “struggle”, “defiance”, “resistance”, etc. But they are perfect, too. They bring us face to face with each other in exactly the right context to learn that the context itself is the problem. My sense is that we are individually processing – or being processed through – a series of experiences tailor-made – by Self and Other in fractious collaboration – to unearth old wisdoms as new. This process is a struggle because we resist each other. Because we resist, because we form sides to defend and fight for what we love, we co-create the struggle, the difficult lesson that it is precisely this oppositional tension we are here to transcend. It is an intense immersion-therapy session at global-collective scale, experienced uniquely by each of us, one by one. These things takes time.

This is the nature of the task before us. We are the nature of the task before us. I, you, everyone, all of us constitute Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, right-wing extremists … we constitute everyone and everything. We built history into today. Today is our inheritance, now and always. We struggle to feel, to own, our co-responsibility, our power, our beauty. We struggle to learn how to stop struggling, to abandon habits of ideology and belief that blind us to The Now. In clinging to the familiar in blank defiance of history’s corrective lesson, we are taught, painfully, that clinging is the problem. The fuel powering our desperate struggle is fear. When we see that, and learn to let go into what needs to be, everything will change. 

When we love, everything changes. This is the nature of the task before us. It is as simple, intricate and intimate as that.

Go abandon!

“Let’s go Brandon!” – Some journalist misreporting a crowd’s chant somewhere in the US

“Fuck Joe Biden!” – A crowd’s chant somewhere in the US misreported by some journalist

I watched some of the 75th hearing of the Corona Investigative Committee as it aired. Reiner Held presented charts depicting all-cause-mortality data in Germany these last few years, one spanning 2000 to present day, the others depicting 2020 and 2021 against the average of 2015-2019. On the evidence he presented, there was no event of any significance affecting all-cause mortality in any age group in Germany. The only remarkable thing is that 2020 and 2021 show below-average all-cause mortality in all but one age group.

If the official data referenced by the guest to create his charts is accurate, then nothing happened that anyone could call a national epidemic emergency. In Germany, no event worthy of the term “pandemic” occurred, and yet a lockdown was imposed and sustained – unique in human history –, and continues to be sustained despite the presence of officially sanctioned ‘effective vaccines’ available to all Germans. Across the northern hemisphere, lockdowns threaten yet again, despite ‘vaccines’ promoted by their manufacturers as 95% effective, and despite all-cause-mortality figures that are beginning to show humanity has never been in any danger. This should of course re-beg the question:

What is going on?

Perhaps virology is correct and the bio-chemical things we call viruses are pathogenic. Perhaps SARS-CoV-2 is one of them. Perhaps it was indeed invented in a lab in Wuhan as a gain-of-function bioweapon, and released into the world for some nefarious reason. If so, on the evidence touched on above, SARS-CoV-2 is not a very impressive weapon or virus, manufactured or otherwise, except as a tool to build fear and elicit mass compliance. Or perhaps its highly expensive gain-of-function powers will reveal themselves in due course.

Or maybe the lockdowns are working. Does their relentlessly touted efficacy explain Germany’s slightly falling mortality rates these last two years? Well, if the data presented by the Swedish guest were similarly accurate, then no; Sweden has seen no significant change in all-cause mortality, either.

Many in conspiracy-theory circles call the ‘vaccines’ “kill shots”. I am aware of no robust epidemiological evidence they are, though data is steadily coming to light that strongly suggests they might be, to some currently unknowable extent (more on this below.) I remind readers that the swine-flu vaccine of 1976 was withdrawn after 25 deaths occurred that were associated with the vaccine. Back then, Big Pharma et al. did not have quite the control of the media it has today. We are at tens of thousands of vaccine-related deaths in the US according to their VAERs database, yet still the Biden regime pushes on with mandates. Germany has been ‘vaccinating’ its population since spring; very little has happened to all-cause mortality as a result, except for an above-average uptick through September, which may be sustained through October. Germany is about six months in to its ‘vaccination’ programme. Perhaps the vaccines’ lethality will reveal itself in due course. Perhaps not. Perhaps that particular conspiracy theory is wrong.

I have at this blog nailed my colours firmly to the conspiracy-theory interpretation of what’s going on. My rough definition of conspiracy is, “breaking eggs to make omelettes, while keeping secret which eggs are to be broken”. As such, in this instance as always, the conspirators believe, in their way, they are doing some form of God’s work; i.e., it is ‘right’ to make whatever omelette is being made – a cleaner world? –, even if the eggs sacrificed would vehemently disagree. I have never claimed to know in any detail globalist goals or methods, nor have I claimed to know how many (tenuously) affiliated groups are cooperating, nor what difficult inter- and intra-group tensions beset them. I have also always been of the view that modernity is at an advanced stage of historical decadence, and that this rot – which is a natural part of historical development – has driven the conspirators to make their (desperate) move: crudely, to subject western civilisation to a controlled demolition, then reap the benefits thereof. Having an obviously senile president of the nation said to be the most powerful on earth is but one manifestation of this historical rot, and thus also of the desperation I assert is driving on the so-called ‘elites’.

But just like an all-cause mortality curve is far smoother averaged out over 5 years than over a single season, so my efforts here even out towards better explanations over time (I assert). The material I’ve published on my blog regarding c19 is fairly bumpy as I pursue various musings to see where they lead. My daily thoughts and conversations are more turbulent still, as I react, sometimes very emotionally, to the vicissitudes of the news. But I do try to sort the wheat from the chaff as time goes by. Confronted by an information pool as corrupted as modernity’s, this is a lengthy process. Figuring out with any certainty what we don’t know we don’t know is notoriously difficult, as is ascertaining how relevant this invisible, inaccessible information is. Which is why I promote humility as the only way to travel. It is also why I am determinedly, passionately against all manifestations of groupthink.

Now I’m going to add climate change to the crazy mix I’ve been compiling here these past months, but by way of demonstrating the value of being open about one’s ignorance. This factor – identifying and acknowledging ignorance – is vital to combatting groupthink, conspiracy, and incompetence, and to exposing the danger of placing ‘experts’ on pedestals and trusting everything they say without question. It is also vital in exposing the dangers of not listening to those experts, as to a host of other intractable challenges that attend civilisation and specialisation. Being honest about our ignorance is so vital, in fact, that it is almost impossible to overstate it, however ‘expert’ we feel we are. 

On to anthropogenic climate change. Carbon dioxide is said to be a “greenhouse gas”. Right now, according to DuckDuckGo, there are 413.67 molecules of CO2 in the air for every million molecules of air that are not CO2. By my maths, that means CO2 represents 0.00414% of earth’s air. I further understand CO2 absorbs heat in the form of outgoing long-wave radiation (OLR), and re-emits it after having absorbed a certain amount. I assume this re-emission of heat energy occurs in all directions, not just earthwards. The height above ground a molecule of CO2 is situated will determine, by my thinking, what percentage of that energy finds its way back to earth.

So far, so non-controversial.

But how does a gas that occupies but 0.004% of earth’s air absorb and re-emit heat energy in sufficient amounts to drive climate change as earth’s most effective “greenhouse gas”? Were I to build a greenhouse, I would use glass like other people do. I would not rely on the air – now richer in CO2 by 0.39% more than last year – even knowing that a ‘consensus’ of scientists report, repeatedly, how dangerously effective CO2 is at warming our planet’s biosphere. An air greenhouse would just suck. So how is CO2 the entire planet’s greenhouse? (I’m leaving out other greenhouse gases, like methane, for the sake of brevity.)

I suspect billions would be outraged by such a simplistic line of enquiry, but my point is not to convince anyone of anything other than the importance of abandoning all pretence of knowing everything, an act of honest humility which fosters an atmosphere of mutual discovery, regardless of what that the truth turns out to be.

Dear passionate defenders of earth’s climate: I have been a vegan for almost a decade, gave up my career in an energy-utility company in 2011 in protest against nuclear power, and live as modestly as I can. My position is that one should err on the side of caution; surely knowing I am ignorant of so much demands such caution. Because I have neither the time nor desire to become an expert climatologist, I try to adapt my behaviours such that my impact on the environment is as benign as possible. However, in my own case, it is consumerism, perpetual economic growth and the absurd power of international corporations I see as root causes of this planet’s ills. And yet these are natural consequences that have emerged, fairly predictably, from the soil of civilisational progress. (Feel free to interpret “progress” in whichever way you choose.)

But regardless of my ignorance, I absolutely refuse to not criticise ‘experts’ and the ‘powerful’, to not question them and their ‘consensus’, their mandates, their claims. I do so in a spirit of honest inquiry. There’s a story about a naked emperor we all know and love that beautifully captures the ability of ignorance – depicted as a child in the story – to cut through any expert’s vanity and pride. We all love that story, but today many of us welcome censoring critics of the official covid19 narrative. 

Why? What’s going on here?

Obligatory trust is an oxymoron

Why on earth should I trust any multinational pharmaceutical corporation? In fact, because “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, I refuse to trust any large agglomeration of power, period. It’s unwise, systemically, for any group to have that much power. People are people, after all. We are obviously not mature enough, psychologically, to handle it, as Lord Acton’s famous saying, slightly misquoted a few lines above, implies. And yet despite this cultural wisdom, so familiar to all of us, it appears we are being mandated to trust Big Pharma; being an “anti-vaxxer” is akin to terrorism, which is illegal. Is criticising or doubting Big Pharma motives and medicines now being made de facto illegal, or at least socially reprehensible? How is this state of affairs not ringing alarm bells in everyone? Because of PR and advertising? How can anything be beyond criticism? Or, in more diluted form: Why should the types of criticism permitted be dictated by the recipient of that criticism? We would never grant such power to each other; why do we grant it to the (already) very powerful?

I choose to think for myself, to resist the influence of groupthink. That seems the healthier way to be, even though it can be socially isolating. I am instantly suspicious of anyone telling me to obey blindly, for any reason whatsoever, particularly for the ‘public good’. Being told to obey ‘authority’, or ‘expertise’, or ‘the science’, however insidiously that instruction is delivered, is precisely how totalitarianism begins. Who can demonstrate clearly, beyond reasonable doubt, that totalitarianism is not currently being installed in as many countries as possible by some collection of wannabe global tyrants? Why are such suspicions so angrily dismissed as lunacy? “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

There’s no such thing as “unnatural”; there is only nature. One of humanity’s most enduringly hubristic notions is that it is somehow outside nature looking in, ‘scientifically’, ‘objectively’, ‘neutrally’. It is a vanity to which we noble beasts continue to cling. But regardless of our enduring vanity, nothing can be outside nature. I do believe, however, that hierarchical systems, natural as they are,  ‘built’ or ‘developed’ or ‘designed’ by historical processes to steadily accumulate power, are unhealthy. I perceive the madness that has gripped much of humanity – a humanity now living in obedient fear of something as mundane as infecting other people – as the visible symptom of an historical bifurcation point born of the unhealthiness of rigidly hierarchical systems of power … hierarchies of power that must, as they repeatedly do, tend strongly towards totalitarianism as a function of their nature. To repeat: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” How many deaths can be attributed to the tyrannical tendencies of those who have pursued power since human history began? Do we honestly believe we have bested tyranny with the likes of the BBC and CNN subjecting governments and multinational corporations to ‘objective’ questioning all across the world? Where is the balanced reporting on c19?

And yet despite all of the above, whose logic I still confidently share with you here, those charts presented on Friday 22 October hit me hard. Exactly how caught up in the insanity I see unfolding around me have I been? Is this entire Corona Circus of the Absurd a big fat nothing burger? (In that hysterically inflated nothing burger, I include the conspiring that is clearly underway at a grand scale.) People are suffering horribly, children in their millions coldly mutated into germaphobes by bureaucratic diktat, then subjected, against all logic and evidence, to an experimental gene treatment relabelled ‘vaccine’ … because profit? Billions of humans have been finessed by skilled public-relations “nudgers”, behavioural programmers and NLP experts into a state of perpetual fear on the winds of a vastly over-inflated nothing burger? For financial gain alone? Could it be so grubby? Is humanity that unimaginative? Could the profit motive alone undergird the push towards global totalitarianism simply because the current Powers That Be prefer things basically as they are, just so they can enjoy ever more of what they enjoy? 

I am offended by how unromantic that would be if true. And I am troubled that that offends me. I have attributed to the globalists a dark and erroneous (negative) nobility, a narcissistic noblesse oblige, a romantic urging towards a mechanical beauty they, dysfunctionally, want to create on earth. If it’s all for money … well, that would be something else entirely.

Is there no population-control agenda in the mix here? Why would the pharmaceutical industry risk a poorly developed set of vaccines, rushed to market in record time, for short-term gain but long-term loss of trust? That strikes me as utterly devoid of any wisdom, intelligence, cunning. It would be mere thuggish greed with no thought for tomorrow.

Such musings may well be an accurate reflection of what’s going on: a frenzied wildfire of groupthink, or groupfeel. And the powers coaxing that fear-frenzy to a global climax are no more or less mad than the rest of us. We are suffering an orgy of collective insanity, and, like fish bound together by the ocean of consciousness we are, we are hurled turbulently this way and that, as if one entity.

Or, if there is a population-control agenda, is it failing miserably? Or is The New Normal – global totalitarianism installed around the new pseudo illegality of infection? – designed to smother humanity’s procreational urges so thoroughly that populations will start to decline precipitously over coming decades? Or are the excess mortality spikes currently reported in the US, UK, Germany and elsewhere – spikes not averaged out and adjusted demographically as in the charts that inspired this article – in fact indicative of a dangerous set of ‘vaccines’ slowly beginning to reveal their ‘side-effects’? It would, after all, be a plan doomed to quick failure if the jabs killed millions within days of injection, while the unvaccinated lived merrily on. No mass-media power would be sufficient to keep such a scenario hidden. If the jabs were indeed designed as “kill shots”, it would have to be in some boiling-frogs manner, a strategy slow and insidious enough to escape easy detection. (Some doctors analysing ‘vaccine’ contents have calculated that up to a third are merely saline solutions, for example.)

I’ve never been persuaded by ‘kill shot” arguments, this despite the likes of Dr Luc Montagnier, Dr Robert Malone, Dr Mike Yeadon, Dr Sucharit Bakhdi, and countless lawyers across the globe, propounding such assessments. Their need to warn the world is clearly authentic; they would not lightly risk their reputations, or establishment opprobrium. But the logic of the notion itself does not convince me entirely. That said, I acknowledge my ignorance and keep open all possible explanations for what is unfolding globally. Global affairs are so unnerving – with nascent fascism now on display in France, Italy, Israel, and Australia –, it’s likely the full explanation of the c19 phenomenon is equally unnerving.

So much uncertainty after all this time, analysis, pondering and discussion! The only things I’m confident of are that the official narrative is carefully deceptive and that history rhymes, with civilisation itself composed of systemic qualities that can only repeatedly lead to such bifurcation points. 

So much detail remains to be properly established: What are the true injection rates of the planet’s national populations? What, exactly, is in the various ‘vaccines’? Why are the ‘vaccine’ ingredients not public knowledge? Does SARS-CoV-2 exist as advertised? How many people died solely of covid19? Is covid19 a new, tightly defined illness, or a generic label stuck on to a too-wide range of familiar symptoms? Where did influenza go? What is a pandemic, exactly, and who should be granted the power to announce one? 

These are just a few of the key questions groupthink prevents us from healthily and effectively discussing. Authority and expertise want dominion of these things, but have shown themselves to be very poorly equipped to handle matters of such global importance. They are all too human, all too subject to the weaknesses of the human ego: pride, ambition, greed, fear, groupthink.

I yearn for a system of widely distributed power balances that prevents, by its very composition, power accumulation. Right now, groupthink stands between humanity and wanting something healthier. The current dominant system of inexorable power accumulation towards global tyranny depends for its continued existence on our obedient compliance. Groupthink serves that dependency.

Groupthink. That’s the problem, folks. Groupthink is the soil in which tyranny takes root and blooms. Groupthink is unscientific, anti-life, and cowardly. Groupthink is virus, super-spreader, and medium of infection all at once. The Powers That Be manipulate groupthink like maestros of the dark arts, but fail to notice how susceptible they themselves are to its mist-covered swamps and seductive self-delusions. 

On and on the circus of history’s madness goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.

I think we need more abandon. We need to be more honest with ourselves and each other, more immediate, and then learn how to cope with each of our truths, our authenticity, our ugliness, our beauty. We are too afraid, too timid, too polite, too sensitive, proud, defensive, too allergic to robust community, to honesty, to ‘failure’, to abandonment. 

We need more abandon.

Can we learn to fall backwards, with abandon, into the waiting wilds of chance and discover, fearfully, excitedly, hopefully, whether we can fly on our own without the strings of the powerful keeping us safely netted in some cage of their design? Do we dare help to build a world which encourages true maturity in every individual, with maximum freedom to be as we are culturally expected, nascent in the air we breathe, while accepting full adult responsibility for the choices we make? Can we outgrow our cultural fear of death? Can we uproot our addiction to authority, its dark charm, its promise of eternal safety proffered so tantalisingly, just on the other side of defeating this current terror. Ok, just on the other side of that current terror. Well, perhaps there’s another terror lurking around the next corner…

Tyrannical authority is as addicted to obedience as the obedient are addicted to tyrannical authority. It is a symbiosis, a death trap. Isn’t the way out of this trap the abandon we need to let go of the fears that hold us back, that keep us firmly secured in authority’s embrace? Perhaps we should start looking each other in the eyes and share what we feel. Perhaps we should listen to the other side. Perhaps we should take that risk and see what happens. 

We’re going to die one way or the other.

Go abandon!

Austria’s Herbert Kickl exposes government’s corona lies

[Herbert Kickl is leader of Austria’s FPÖ party (“Freedom Party of Austria”), the third largest in that country. Below is my translation of his speech at a press conference on 22 October 2021. My translation has evened out much of the repetition common to free-flowing speech, to make the written text flow more speedily and smoothly. In other words, the translation is fairly free aesthetically, but tightly loyal to the original in meaning.]

Austrian federal government goes on the rampage

The reason for today’s press conference is what I call the Austrian federal government’s recent rampage, but first and foremost the rampages by the Federal Chancellor and the Minister of Health. Rampages in our country against freedom and human dignity under the guise of public-health policy. I use the term “rampage” deliberately. I could also say that this is a frontal attack on the fundamental rights and freedoms of the entire population, especially on the unvaccinated.

What fundamental rights and freedoms are being attacked here? The right to individual freedom, the right to physical integrity, the right to work and the right not to be discriminated against. All of it is being trampled on by Mr Schallenberg and Mr Mückstein, to force free people, who have chosen not to take an experimental vaccine, onto its needle. In the end, that’s what we are witness to; a brutal regime of mandatory vaccination being established in Austria.

It is nothing more than mandatory vaccination

It doesn’t matter whether we are now talking about the package of measures called “3G” in the workplace [Geimpft (vaccinated), Genesen (recovered), Getestet (tested): in Germanic countries, entry to work, businesses, events, etc. (it varies from country to country) is permitted only if you can demonstrate you are one of those three things], or whether we’re talking about continued progression along the “step-by-step plan” by two further steps, levels 4 and 5: It is nothing more than mandatory vaccination, even if the Austrian federal government is too cowardly to call it by its right name. I put it to you: What kind of sadistic person do you have to be to subject unvaccinated, healthy, symptomless people to mandatory testing, every day, just so that they can go to work, so that they can feed themselves and their families, so that they can earn money to cover their living expenses, so that they can pay taxes to the state, so that they can pay their social-security contributions from which, among other things, our health system is financed?

To subject these unvaccinated, symptomless, healthy people to a compulsory test that is deliberately designed so that many of them cannot even fulfil it, is an act of political cynicism. I have been travelling around the country a lot in the last few days, talking to the people concerned. They explain their situations to me in palpable despair. Their despair at the problems they face from the government’s implementation makes a deep impression. The worst thing about it is that this is precisely the situation the government desires. This so-called alternative of the third G [Gestestet (tested)] is designed in such a way that it is simply inaccessible to many people.

An act of cynicism, an act of blackmail

It is a pure act of cynicism when you consider, for example, the problems faced by shift workers who have irregular work schedules that change every week. They cannot adapt to test-facility opening hours, and such facilities are not even available in more rural areas. When you consider people who often have to drive 20 or 30 kilometres to the nearest test facility, when you consider people who start work so early that nothing is open and finish so late everything is closed, you see that a very, very sinister game is being played here, played on the backs of the population. This is what Mr Mückstein means when he says testing will be made inconvenient, and when Mr Schallenberg says that things will get uncomfortable for the unvaccinated.

What is happening here, in fact, is nothing more than an act of blackmail. Get vaccinated or lose your job. That is the truth behind this regime: 3G in the workplace. I ask you: How cold do you have to be, what kind of a heartless doctor, to disallow unvaccinated, symptomless, healthy people, in this level 4 situation, from visiting their loved ones in the nursing home, for example, from visiting them in an old people’s home, when you know perfectly well these old people suffer from loneliness more than anyone else? You know they need closeness and affection. How cold and heartless do you have to be to set up something like that for level 4?

Bottom-of-the-barrel people treat others like work slaves

And what a bottom-of-the-barrel character you have to be to blackmail healthy, unvaccinated, symptomless people into getting vaccinated by telling them that, for level 4, ”You’re only allowed to have a family member visit your children, acquaintances or friends in hospital if they are vaccinated.” Imagine a car accident, or anything of that severity, and a family member of yours ends up in hospital. We’re dealing with a government that tells them, “If you’re not vaccinated, then you can’t visit them.” This is scraping the bottom of the barrel at its very worst, ladies and gentlemen.

Allow me to ask you something else: What kind of human being do you have to be to treat unvaccinated, healthy and symptomless people – here I’m talking about lockdown for the unvaccinated – almost like work slaves. You are granted the right to go to work, granted the right to pay taxes. Maybe you’re allowed to go to the supermarket, but that’s it. Otherwise you’re locked up. That’s what awaits us in level 5 of the government’s emergency plans.

Is vaccination effective, or not?

Then listen to the explanations as to why all these measures are apparently required. There’s Governor Schützenhöfer. Admittedly, he’s not the brightest candle on the cake, but the explanation he gave is grotesque: He said: “We will not allow the unvaccinated to infect the vaccinated.” Only to say two sentences later, “Only vaccination protects.” Which is it? Governor Schützenhöfer: Which is it? Is vaccination effective, or not?

And the other explanations that have been presented are almost as weak. The second version is that we are to protect the healthy unvaccinated from the vaccinated, from the “fully immunised”. Excuse me? What does fully immunised mean then? It makes no sense. The third version is that you protect the healthy from the healthy by locking them up. Do you not see how absurd, how deranged the whole thing is, the circus that’s underway in our country?

Useless and counterproductive health policy

Ladies and gentlemen, what we are witnessing is constitutionally and morally indefensible. It is deeply reprehensible, and furthermore, completely useless as health policy. It is completely useless health policy, not to mention counterproductive. And we must not forget that all these attacks are not only directed against the wholly unvaccinated, they are also directed against all those who only have a first vaccination but do not want the second “jab”. It is also directed against those who have had two vaccinations and are now hesitating about taking the third. And it is also directed against all those who have recovered and whose reprieve – as I like to call it – granted them by the government, has expired. And that is a very, very large number of people.

Now I will explain why the federal government is doing this. The federal government has an enormous problem. With this government, all those who have pushed the Corona measures in unison with and in support of them over the past months have this problem too. And this problem is called: They are trapped in a dead end.

The plan was to make the greatest possible profit from the crisis

The plan was quite simple. First: You spread fear and panic. That done, you go out and try to herd people into this vaccination experiment so that, later, you can present yourself as the saviour and garner the greatest possible political profit. The problem is that reality does not obey government propaganda. Reality cannot obey a redemption script certain parties penned for themselves. Reality, in fact, works the other way around. Reality supports critics of the script penned by the ÖVP, the Greens and the SPÖ. The true findings are quite different; this vaccine therapy, or “vaccination” as it is called, is not a game changer. Nothing like it. The game-changer story is fake. It is a clear untruth. Yet another on the government’s appalling record of untruths.

Second: Vaccination works, but doesn’t work well enough. You can read about this in the relevant scientific publications. Third – and this is the crucial point: We do not have a pandemic of the unvaccinated. What we have is a major deficit in the effectiveness of the vaccination. And that is why the vaccinated also belong to the group that I call “the deceived” of this government, in connection with its corona policy. And anyone who continues to rely entirely on vaccination, as this government does, those who continue to propagate vaccination as a panacea to the pandemic, are committing a continuing fraud against their own population. This policy will lead us into a health disaster.

The numbers expose government failure

Let’s take a look at a few numbers together. We’ll start with infection rates. The number of so-called ‘cases’ one year ago on 22.10.2020 was 21,835. Today, the 22.10.2021, we have 36,298 cases. That’s significantly more this year, even though we know only unvaccinated people are currently being tested. And the government is deliberately, I say deliberately and knowingly, drawing the wrong conclusion from this data, that we are dealing with a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and building their scapegoat strategy on that. No doubt they will admit their error long after the fact.

Let’s turn to the number of hospitalisations: One year ago, on 22.10.2020, 841 people were hospitalised, and 161 were in intensive care. This makes a total of 1,002 hospitalised. Today, on 22.10.2021: 795 people in hospital, with 220 in intensive care: a total of 1,015. This means that the total number of covid patients in hospitals has increased slightly and that we have seen a significant increase in the number of intensive care patients since last year.

Numbers have worsened after vaccination

And what is the difference between then and now? Ladies and gentlemen, what is the difference? The difference is that in the meantime between 62 and 65 percent of the population, the vaccine-eligible population, is “fully immunised”. That is the difference. One year ago, not a single person in Austria had been vaccinated. Now, common sense tells us that in light of a continuing “full immunisation” programme, this data, the infection numbers, just like the hospitalisation numbers, should actually be declining. They should be declining, but the opposite is true.

I know the government is saying: It’s the unvaccinated. This is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. But that’s not true either. What we are seeing is something quite different. For that you have to examine the number of so-called “vaccine breakthroughs”. Again, this is a trivialising term; vaccine breakthroughs are supposed to suggest that this phenomenon is an exception and not a mass phenomenon. So here, too, there is deliberate language manipulation. Let’s take a closer look at this. In the last four calendar weeks, that is weeks 38 to 41, there were 30,270 symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases. So, those are the vaccine breakthroughs. 30,270. Of those 30,270, 10,189 are fully vaccinated. That's 33.66 percent, and that's across all age groups.

Vaccine breakthroughs in older people: predominantly vaccinated

Now we turn to the high-risk group, the 60+. These are the people for whom the government always said vaccination must be particularly thorough, these are the highly vulnerable people. Here we have a proportion of fully vaccinated people in these vaccine breakthroughs of 65 percent. 65 percent; that’s close to two-thirds of this group. And this despite the fact that we have the highest vaccination rate of all in this age group. There we have reached a vaccination rate of well over 80, almost 90 percent. There should really be no more vaccination breakthroughs at all, if vaccination protects as well as the government repeatedly claims.

These figures do not come from the Freedom Party of Austria, but from the health agency, the federal government, the AGES. And the AGES itself says something very important about these figures: it tells us vaccine breakthroughs are being reported, but we can be confident that nowhere close to all breakthroughs are reported. This phenomenon is called “underreporting”. This means we have to assume that the number of actual breakthroughs is significantly higher. And there is something else. You should also know that only those who have been vaccinated and infected twice, and who also develop symptoms, are recorded as vaccine breakthroughs.

International scientific findings are ignored

So people who have the virus but no symptoms are not counted as a breakthrough. This means that you can add a considerable number of people. Only then you can clearly see how ineffective this vaccination is. And all of this completely confirms what the CDC announced in August of this year after investigating the Massachusetts cluster. You can read about it on the CDC’s homepage. They investigated the outbreak there in fine detail and reported that fully vaccinated people can still be infected, and that vaccinated infected people are just as infectious as unvaccinated people. That is the current state of knowledge of the most important health authority in the world. But this fact is completely ignored by the Austrian federal government.

Mr Schallenberg and Mr Mückstein act as if none of these facts exist. Instead of taking these findings into account, an apartheid system, a caste system I would almost say, is being enforced in Austrian society, in which the lowest of the lowest castes is the unvaccinated. They are denigrated and disenfranchised without justification. This is public-health policy in Austria in 2021, entirely evidence free.

Israel: More and more clusters and diseases despite vaccination

Ladies and gentlemen, not long ago I pointed out in a press conference that we can see from the example of Israel that a high vaccination rate offers no protection against high infection rates. I discussed Israel referencing their scientists’ statements – which you can read in Science – to demonstrate that of the high hospitalisation rates, which include particularly severe and critical progressions, a high percentage so affected are double vaccinated. It was not so long ago that I made this announcement to you in a press conference. This data comes from August of this year, in Israel. It is precisely this development that is now catching up with us.

Israel was just a few months ahead. What has already happened there is now coming to us. The number of clusters of the fully-immunised is constantly growing. You know what it’s like: bus trips of some senior-citizens group, in which only vaccinated people are included, and yet a cluster occurs. They’re finding more and more cases of this kind as the vaccine breakthroughs increase. And, of course, the number of hospitalisations and severe disease progressions are also increasing.

There is no science behind the claim that vaccination makes illnesses milder

I already know people will say: “Yes, yes, but the severe progressions and death rates are down in the double vaccinated.” I would like to hear what the primary source for this claim is. I would like to know. Perhaps you know? What is the primary source for this claim, made repeatedly by our political leaders? What studies back this up? I would really like to know! And the second thing is: Which studies tell us that people are better protected from severe disease progression by vaccination than by appropriate drug treatment? Which studies back that idea up? I would like to hear about them. 

I believe these studies do not exist, ladies and gentlemen.

And because we shouldn’t talk about Israel alone, we should also look at Singapore. A very recent example: Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, well over 80 percent. But Singapore is currently rushing headlong into a fourth wave; the infection rates there are going through the roof. I can quote Alex Cook, an expert on infection models at the University of Singapore: ”Singapore shows that even high vaccination rates don’t help that much.” So we’re seeing this sort of thing in Singapore, too. And in Denmark, a country where they said they would let people go about freely because the vaccination rate is so high; there, too, the numbers are going up. You see the same thing in Germany. The Robert Koch Institute recently published some data: 60+ [age group]: 55 percent of those who fall ill are double vaccinated. In the Robert Koch Institute’s weekly report, they find around 100,000 vaccine breakthroughs in just one week. The Robert Koch Institute itself is now talking about an overestimation of vaccine effectiveness.

Without any measures, Sweden is better off than Austria

It’s very interesting, what’s happening here. You’ll understand that I’m happy that in another country – which has now disappeared from the radar a bit – the development there is a very, very positive one. I’m talking about Sweden. They took a completely different path from the very start and have a similar proportion of fully-vaccinated people in the total population as Austria. If you look at their current figures, they have 29 people in intensive care as of 22.10. In Austria, as I said, there are 220. If you look at the mortality figures, since 1 July 2021 we have 332 deaths in Sweden and 480 in Austria.

In Sweden, mere suggestions to the population have been in force since 29 September. In our country, the federal government is interfering with a programme of injustice, in which fundamental rights and freedoms are trampled underfoot, and unvaccinated people are stigmatised as scapegoats. Ladies and gentlemen, all this means that while vaccination has some effect, it is by no means the game changer that can end this pandemic.

Has the government always known about low vaccine efficacy?

Vaccination is far less effective than claimed, and is effective for far less time than claimed. And this fact won’t change when, after the third jab, they get a fourth and a fifth and a sixth. The fundamental problem will remain. I believe the Austrian government knows this. If you look at the fact that 41 or 42 million doses were ordered for 2022 and 2023 and do the maths on that figure, you come to the conclusion that you can actually vaccinate seven million Austrians three times a year. They must have already known that the effectiveness lasts a few months at most.

There’s no victory to be had by following this strategy. At the same time, we have a growing side-effects or vaccine-damage scandal. Incidentally, here too we also have the phenomenon of underreporting. Not every event that should be reported is being reported, and by a significant margin. It frightens me when I talk to internists who tell me, for example, that the number of myocarditis cases, especially among young vaccinated people, is very high. This is actually an alarming development, which should immediately lead to an end of the vaccination programme in this age group.

Number of deaths from vaccination damage will increase

The number of deaths by vaccination will also continue to rise. This, too, is something that is completely taboo, about which we hardly hear or read anything. And, of course, we continue to face this problem of medium- and long-term health consequences, where frightening results in connection with tumour growth have now come to public attention, i.e. where there is quite obviously a connection between vaccination and tumour growth.

So, ladies and gentlemen, there is no pandemic of the unvaccinated. Anyone making that claim is spreading government propaganda. The government needs it to be true because it builds all its horrors on top of that claim. What we actually see is an ineffective vaccine and thus rapid spread of the virus among and through the vaccinated. That is the problem we face. That is the real problem. And I don’t blame the vaccinated here. The vaccinated are people who feel protected because of what the government tells them. They are people lulled into a feeling of safety by statements from the Minister of Health, as from all those who have participated in this campaign.

People are being deceived by the government

The vaccinated have been deceived. Deceived , lied to and lulled into a false sense of security. The mendacity continues to this day. This fact is particularly reprehensible. You only have to look at the core claims made in the government’s current vaccination campaigns. The government, in concert with the Red Cross, is running a major vaccination campaign. In addition to the coercive regime being rolled out, this campaign is, as it were, an auxiliary strategy for manipulating people into participating in this vaccination experiment.

So let’s take a look at the core messages from these vaccination campaigns. People are being told – funded by their own tax money by the way – that vaccination will make the pandemic go away. That is one of the posters from the campaigns. Its slogan reads: "So that the pandemic will pass". Hogwash and lies!

Untruths are propagated in garish ads

People are also told that if they get vaccinated, older people will no longer be infected by younger people and children. That’s in those malicious commercials, where we see old people in front of a microphone saying: “Now my grandchildren can finally come and visit me again.” There is no evidence supporting this ad, either.

People are being told as part this vaccination campaign that full protection is provided after the second vaccination. Not even the pharmaceutical companies makes this claim. And yet the Austrian government, in concert with the Red Cross, makes exactly this claim in their vaccination campaign. People are being told that if they don’t get vaccinated, they will get sick. As if there were no symptomless disease progressions. As if there were no T-cell immunity. As if there were no cross-immunity.

Young people are misled about the current legal situation

Yet another message from these vaccination campaigns is evidence free, and particularly ‘creative’ in catching the attention of the young. The campaign aims to exploit young people’s need for entertainment, in the form of discos and clubs. The government misinforms the young by telling them: “You can only get into a club if you’re vaccinated.” That’s not actually the current legal position, but on the poster we see, “Everybody went to the club but Irene, who says ‘vaccination gives you migraines’." That is classic misinformation. This messaging does not accurately depict the current state of the law. What this poster claims is not true.

Unscrupulous and criminal

There are other such examples. “Everyone went to the club but Jochen. He hasn’t been jabbed." Ladies and gentlemen, this is evidence-free manipulation of one’s own population to drive people onto the needle. I think it is disgraceful behaviour. It is unscrupulous and criminal.

It is for this reason that we are filing a complaint with the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care in accordance with paragraph 6 of the Medicines Act. Paragraph 6 of the Medicines Act concerns deception. If what is being disseminated here by means of the vaccination campaigns is not determined to be misleading, when the floodgates will be opened for every form of manipulative misinformation in the field of medicine and vaccination.

Health-budget cuts during humanity’s ‘deadliest’ pandemic

Ladies and gentlemen, the government’s strategy is leading us into disaster. I predict the following: We will crash into a fourth wave. Cases will rise dramatically and the health-care system will face huge difficulties. One reason for this is that it has been cut to the bone and not upgraded these last two years … one and a half years. Please think about that. Cuts in the health budget and not a single intensive-care bed left, despite a pandemic that is allegedly the biggest humanity has ever faced.

Who is responsible for this? And then you get into a situation where a few hundred intensive-care patients cause a modern society to topple over, leading to fundamental rights and freedoms being eliminated in that country. Where have we arrived? Where are we, ladies and gentlemen? This is a total failure! And all this simply because the government continues to rely on vaccination as a panacea.

Public menaces who have human lives on their conscience

Anyone who fails to change course now is a reckless danger to public health. Those who fail in this regard will have human lives on their conscience. I choose my words carefully here. They will deliberately divide society. Whoever fails to change course now will be trampling on fundamental rights and freedoms. Such people will lead our country into the next lockdown. A lockdown not only for the unvaccinated – that will be of no use – but also for the vaccinated. That’s where this will end. And with that we have the next attack on prosperity in this country, which generations have built up and which is now being put at risk by an irresponsible and stubbornly closed-minded federal government.

WHO Director: Vaccination will not end pandemic

Ladies and gentlemen, I suspect the European Director of the WHO won’t be labelled a tinfoil-hat wearer, not even our government would do that. He is Dr Hans Kluge. This particular Director of Health of the WHO said the following: Vaccination will not end the pandemic. Governments need to change their strategy to deal with the spread of the virus.

So what is our government doing? Our government is doing the exact opposite. Our government is betting the farm on vaccination. They risk a reckless gamble, with the population’s health, fundamental rights and freedoms on the line.

The Freedom Party of Austria call for a Plan B

What we Freedom Party members want is the immediate implementation of a Plan B. A Plan B without reprisals. 

Our Plan B has the following essential points. Firstly, an immediate end to any kind of compulsory vaccination. There must be no disadvantage, no reprisals for anyone who does not want to undergo vaccination, for whatever reason. Those who want to be vaccinated should do so. Preferably after detailed consultation with their doctor on the basis of their own medical history. That would be the sensible approach. But not at the supermarket checkout, not on a vaccination bus in front of the school. Not in front of a disco at night, like when whalers used to “shanghai” drunk sailors in the harbour pub. This is similar to what is done now with vaccination, when they try to entice young people outside discos.

Immediate use of medication to aid the infected

The second item is: Immediate use of medication for the infected. Immediate use of medication to prevent severe disease progression. Ladies and gentlemen, you know that existing medicines have been used successfully against covid19 for a long time, that new medicines are being tested and developed. Using these medicines has a major advantage: There’s no need to vaccinate the whole population. Medicines are targeted at those people who have an infection and have been diagnosed with a disease. This means we don't have to expose the entire population to the risk of side effects. That is a huge plus, especially when we know that, statistically speaking, large parts of the population under 60 have zero risk of a severe course of the disease, including death.

If you argue that medication doesn’t work or that you absolutely have to vaccinate: please, ladies and gentlemen, HIV was not fought with vaccination. HIV is fought with medication. This is so important to me, because our government has staked its lot on the claim – I’m referring to those manipulative vaccination campaigns – that only vaccination can protect us. That’s just not true. We know that covid19 is easily treatable with medication. We also know that if these drugs are administered early on, we can prevent severe disease progression and significantly reduce mortality. We know that if we administer these drugs early, we can prevent severe cases, reduce mortality, reduce hospitalisations, prevent overloading vaccination units, that we can prevent all the negative effects currently being triggered.

We know more about administering medication than about third-dose vaccination

You are probably aware that one of 2021’s most read scientific publications is by Professor Peter McCullough. It is an overview of the drugs administered in connection with the fight against covid19. This is in the US, but there are other studies on all these drugs. There are scientific publications and there is real-world experience. And that is much, much more than we can say of the third jab. We don’t have rich experience to draw on here. We don’t have that at all. The crucial point is that these drugs are administered at an early stage and not only in hospital. Then it is too late. Then we find ourselves in the middle of a severe progression.

You also know that American medical associations have established a drug regimen. And there are very, very good doctors in Austria, as in other countries of the European Union, who have adapted this course of medication to European conditions. The main thing is that you do not need intravenous treatments, and you do not need house calls from doctors; you can basically handle everything with tablets. It would be enormously liberating if this course of drugs were applied. So that is one of our central demands, to immediately introduce these drug regimens and launch a broad information campaign to the population, telling them that this is possible, and to promote this form of therapy appropriately.

Record and research population immunity

Ladies and gentlemen, another element of our Plan B is the detection of antibodies throughout the population. This should in fact be a matter of course for a decent health policy; it is incredibly positive news for people to know they themselves are actually better protected from any infection by an immunity they could never attain via vaccination. Sadly, this just doesn’t fit government strategy.

That’s why they also claimed: “Immunity from defeating a disease is over after six months.” That’s a whopper! There is no medical evidence natural immunity lasts only six months. But if we did things differently, people would realise that it can be advantageous to have already been infected, because then you have long-lasting immunity. But then the government would be stuck with all those vaccine doses, a troublesome outcome that obviously has to be prevented at all costs.

Another essential element of Plan B is that vaccinated people are also tested, if relevant symptoms present. Otherwise, we can’t compile a comprehensive dataset.

Solidarity among all those deceived by the government

Ladies and gentlemen, in conclusion, the Freedom Party of Austria believes there must be solidarity among all those who have been deceived by the government in connection with its corona policy. And this solidarity of the deceived is the exact opposite of the societal division Schallenberg and Mückstein promote.

To repeat: the deceived include the unvaccinated, who are now being scapegoated without any evidence, and who are being vilified and disenfranchised. The deceived include those who have recovered, who are told that their natural immunity only applies for a few months after they have been in quarantine, then they have get vaccinated. The deceived include those who had an asymptomatic progression, who have antibodies but have did not quarantine. That makes no sense whatsoever. They have also been deceived.

The deceived are also the vaccinated

The deceived are also the vaccinated, simply because they have been led to believe that after two jabs they would be safe, that there is no longer any danger to themselves and others. And no one mentions side effects, they don’t even happen! They are mentioned in every advertisement for sore throat tablets, but not when the government promotes these gene vaccines. Then you hear nothing about dangerous risks and side effects.

We want to foster this solidarity politically. We are fighting for it. Therefore, at the next opportunity, we will table be a motion of no confidence in the Minister of Health. We are preparing a ministerial indictment against Mückstein, just as we did against his predecessor, Anschober. I have already mentioned that we will file a complaint with the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care because of misleading information in connection with all these vaccinations. And I believe that the point will be reached again where the Freedom Party will also bring its protest to the streets.